This breakthrough book brings together articles authored by students of the Tri-Cities area in the state of Washington and Slavutych, Ukraine who share a common inheritance - coming of age in a nuclear community. Slavutych is located near the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. The Tri-Cities area is near the Hanford nuclear research facility, which produced the plutonium for the first atomic bomb. Slavutych student include firsthand stories of the evacuation from Chornobyl and Prypyat. Tri-Cities students include interviews with scientists who designed and operated some of Hanford's first reactors, as well as current community leaders. The book includes color photographs taken by the students, plus historical photos from their respective cities.